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Show T ·9-6 ] For facred truths announced her frenzied dreams, And turn'd to night the fun's meridian beams.-- 420 Hear, oh, BRITANNIA! potent QEeen of ifles, On whom fair Art, and meek Religion fmiles, Now AFRic's coafi:s thy craftier fons invade, And Theft and Murder take the garb of Trade I -The SLAvE, in chains, on fuppEcating knee, 42 S Spreads his wide arms, and lifts his eyes to Thee; With hunger pale, with wounds and toil opprefs' d, "'' ARE WE NOT BRETHREN?'' forrow choaks the re:fl: .; -AIR ! bear to heaven upon thy azure flood The iT innocent cries ! --EARTH ! cover not their blood.! IX. " When Heaven·' s dread jufiice frnites in crimes o'ergrown 43 ·1 The blood-nurfed Tyrant on his purple throne, ·GNOMEs ! YOUR bold forms unnumber' d arms outfiretch, And urge the vengeance_o'er the guilty wretch.- [ 97 ] 1."'hus when CAMBYSES led his barbarous hofis From Pedia' s rocks to Egypt's trembling coafis, Defiled each hallowed fane, and facred wood, 435 And, drunk with fury, fwell' d the Nile with blood ; Waved his proud banner o'er the Theban fiates, And pour'd defiruCl:ion through her hundred gates; 44 In dread diviG.ons march' d the marihal' d bands, And [warming armies blackened aU the lands, By Memphis thefe to ETHioP's fultry plains, And thofe to HAMMoN's fand-incircled fanes.- Slow as they pafs' d, the indignant Te1nple~ frown' d, 445 Low curfes muttering from the vaulted ground ; Long ailes of Cyprefs waved their deepen' d glooms, And quivering fpeetres grinn' d amid the tombs; Prophetic whifpers breathed from SPHINx's tongue, And MEMNoN's lyre with hollow murmurs rung; 450 cr., 1. r- 1 "t. 1 43 .. c.~mbyfes mnrched one army from Thebes, aft~r having .L '-'US ·w.>m LfltliV)jl'J. • )• • • h bl d to fubdue overturned the temples, ravaged the cou ntry, and deluged Jt wll 00 ' Ethiopia . this army nlmofl: perifhed by L1mine, infomuch, that they repeatedly flew every ten;h man to fupply the remainder '":ith food. lie fc~r a~_oth~r army to plunder I the temp e o f. Ju p1' t er f\-~m mon , whidl pen fhcd, overwl~elm d \-\ lth [;md. PART I. 0 |